An absorbent article that has a length direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction, each of which is perpendicular to the other two. In said absorbent article, a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-permeable second sheet, an absorber, and a liquid-impermeable back sheet are layered together in that order in the thickness direction. Each widthwise side of the absorbent article has a compressed section in which the top sheet, the second sheet, and the absorber are compressed in the thickness direction from the side on which the top sheet is located. The widthwise edges of the second sheet are folded over such that the second sheet has a pair of double-layer sections, each of which comprises both a bonded region in which the top layer of that double-layer section and the bottom layer of that double-layer section are bonded together and a non-bonded region, outside said bonded region in the width direction, in which the top layer and the bottom layer of that double-layer section are not bonded together. In the lengthwise middle of the absorbent article, at least parts of the aforementioned non-bonded regions are located outwards of the abovementioned compressed sections in the width direction.一種吸收性物品，係具有互相正交的長方向、寬幅方向及厚度方向，且在厚度方向依序層積液透過性的頂面薄片、液透過性的第二薄片、吸收體、以及液不透過性的背面薄片，並在寬幅方向的兩側部形成有從頂面薄片側朝厚度方向壓縮頂面薄片、第二薄片、以及吸收體的一對的壓縮部之吸收性物品，其特徵為：第二薄片，是藉由折返寬幅方向的兩端部而具有一對的2層部，2層部，是具有：接著上層與下層的接著區域、以及沒有接著上層與下層的非接著區域，其是在比該接著區域更位在寬幅方向的外側的位置，非接著區域的至少一部分在長方向的中央部比壓縮部更位在寬幅方向的外側。
